44 Twitter Chat Tools For The Modern Teacher

Twitter is one of the most powerful teacher professional development tools of the 21st century.

The fact that that sentence is–as far as we can tell anyway–entirely true shows how much technology has changed everything.

Imagine being told even just six years ago that in 2013 your best consistent source of diverse professional information would blogs and a stream of short messages in a bird-branded app on a screen you could hold in your lap. (The iPad wasn’t introduced until April, 2010!)

While we believe that it’s time to offer teachers professional development credit for their time invested here, that will likely time some paradigm shifts from district administrators and policy makers.

For now, we can do the best we can with what we have. And what we have’s a lot, including the following list of 44 twitter chat and hashtag tools, perfect for your #edtech, #edtech, #21stedchat, and related twitter chats and education hashtags you use to connect with educators globally.

Commun.it dramatically improve the way you manage your community, monitor engagement, track campaign and discover leads on Twitter! It helps you to build meaningful, personal relationships through social media while focusing on your highest-value relationships (influencers, supporters, most engaged members,promising new leads...).

I love that this tool shows you who you interacted with based on hashtags and chats you participated in.

Create stories using social media. Turn what people post on social media into compelling stories. Collect the best photos, video, tweets and more to publish them as simple, beautiful stories that can be embedded anywhere.

Here’s a list of Tweetchats in both alphabetical order and by day. Thank you to @merylkevans for the inspiration to build this Twitter chat wiki. A detailed list appears after the list sorted by the day of the week. Please add chats, more information or corrections in the comments and I’ll update the list. To join a chat, check the post on how to join Twitter chats. To edit this Tweetup wiki, you must first create and account.

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Find Twitter users by hash terms. Has advanced search features as well. It also shows the number of tweets, but I don't know from what time/date range. You can also see JUST their tweets from that hashtag but that is defiantly served by tweet search so it will have those limitations.

Ever seen a hashtag on Twitter, and wondered what it is all about? Now you can look it up, and cast your vote on the definitions. And if you don't like the definitions, or none exists, you can create your own in seconds.

This was used to bring allow people from Twitter, Linkedin, and email sign in together into one off twitter chat client that could post back to twitter. I don't believe it is still in operation, but am not positive. Please comment if you have updated information.